A 17-year-old girl was killed by a man in Telangana's Adilabad district yesterday - her throat slit in full public view in front of her home - allegedly because she rejected his advances in an incident disturbingly similar to the murder of an Infosys employee in Chennai last month.

The Supreme Court today ordered one of the largest compensations so far in the country in a case of medical negligence - Rs 1.8 crore. The Tamil Nadu government has to pay the sum to a 18-year-old girl who lost her vision at birth due to medical negligence at a government-run hospital.

A college student in Chennai has alleged that she was raped by a man posing as a policeman. The girl has filed a police complaint in which she has said that she was with her boyfriend on Tuesday when the man stopped them at a checkpost and asked the girl to come with him for investigation. The girl said the accused forced her to come with him on hi...

Indian cricketer Dinesh Karthik, who got engaged to 2014 Commonwealth Games squash gold-medallist Dipika Pallikal in November 2013, got close to the Chennai girl following their training sessions under the same fitness coach.

The 11-2 11-6 11-5 victory over Lisa Aitken by World No.11 Dipika Pallikal could not have come at a better time for Chennai girl Dipika Pallikal, who had entered the event without registering a main draw win this year.

The Tamil Nadu Police arrested four tribal youth, all accused of gang-rape of a girl in Tripura, who took jobs in a private security agency in Chennai to evade punishment, police said in Agartala on Sunday.